Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-12-28
THE EAST.

THE New York cab drivers strike has
been settled.
The Easometer on q reservoir tank that
holds the entire supply OF gas for Potts
vile, Pa, exploded the other afternoon,
wrecking every thing and causing q loss
OF $4,000. No one was hurt.
Four miners were fatally injured By 40
explosion Of gas in the Nottingham mine,
ut Plymouth, Pa, on the 2ist.
HURD, WAITE & Co, dry goods, OF Brook
Ign, N. Y, have made an assignment. The
liabilities are reported ct about el75, 200.
chiefly due In New York.
z. l.. PACKER, one Of the largest whole
sale dealers iE pine lumber at Pittsburgh,
Pa, has confessed Judgement for over
$4,000, t2S, go to the Peoples National
Bank and tl2, l4 TO the Second National
Bank. The banks interested believe he will
pay dollar for dollar.
REPRESENTATIVE Of the principal wooden
aud Y0rsted manufacturers met ut New
York on the 2lst and formed O eombIna.
ton
A SUCCESSION Of explosions occurred at
the Jefferson Il Clinton -four mills, Mill
street, Rochester, n. ", on the afternoon
ofthe 2lst, caused by a leakage OF naphths
from the pipe leading from the gas house
10 the Vacuum oil works. Immense dam
ekC WhB uOue, Two men OciHK hnO
two others being unaccounted for.
The trial Of the suit OF the Banque
Franco-Egyptienne against the trustees OF
the New York, Boston & Montreal railroad
for the recovery OF S6,OOO.OOO closed in the
United States Circuit Court at New York
on the 22d. II had been in progress three
weeks. Judge Wallace reserved his de-
cislon.
TIE stockholders OF the Continental Life
Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn,
have consented TO the appointment OF re-
ceiver.
A HURRICANE was reported on Massachu-
sets on the night Oft e ed, the weather be-
ing bitterly cold. An unknown schooner
was ashore on Dog Fish bar.
DURING November 1917 immigrants ar
rived in This country, against 1859 in No
vember, 1885,
FRANK Roscoe, shoe manufacturer. Of
Norwalk, Conn, has failed, with SoO.OJO liza
blliues and 10000 assets.
FLEIcHNAS Il Co.'S dry goods store, Mar
ket street, Pittsburgh Pa, was destroyed
by hrs on the night OF the 2ist. Three fire.
men were seriously injured by the fall of n
moor. The damage amounted to $an,OOo.
An earthquake shock was felt the other
night In and about New Bedford, Mass
No damage was done.
me united NJ ate0
army quartermaster's clerk who ran away
from Sacketrs Harbor. ". ", last June
with $3.50 Of the Quartermaster's money.
has been arrested.
ANOTHER big strike on the Reading rail.
road was recently expected, the president
being unwilling to concede TO the demands
OF the miners aud coal handlers.
The Rochester ~. " authorities have
decided to sue the Vacuum Oil Company OF
that city for damages to sewerA ana other
property, occasiOned by the resent explo,
sion OF MAJ htha- Several Of the lateral
sewers were thought TO be ruined, and II
was thought that the litigation will involve
over half million dollars. A number OF
private damage suits will probably be com.
menced
TIE Western Pennsylvania & New York
railroad shops and seven locomotives n
DH Eity, Pa. were destroyed By fre the
oiher moFuine Lose, etOQOfl
THE refusal To discharge nou.unioa meg
on the Reading raiiroad led to a general
strike on the 24th. The trouble was siuni-
lar 70 that on the NJ ssouri Pacific in the
spring Of 1854
HON. DANIEL MAxSISe, ex-Sccretary Of
the Treasury, died at Albany, ". ", OF
the 2fth.
ANeEs he arrivals q csstIs ssrds.